our questions QUOTES

1 " If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this? "

― John Bytheway , When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything

2 " In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers. "

― Fred Rogers , The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

3 " The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies. "

― Mortimer J. Adler , How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

4 " We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. "

― Carl Sagan

5 " If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. "

― Carl Sagan , Cosmos

6 " The verbal tool of exploring mystery together is not confrontation or preaching but dialogue. We subject ourselves to the same questions we pose to others, and as we traverse them together, we may arrive at surprising conclusions we could never have reached when simply trying to defeat one another's logic. Our questions are open ended, granting the other person the freedom to respond or not to respond. The questions stick with us, even haunt us, long after we ask them, and we await insight together. The process is more important than an immediate decision. "

― Adam S. McHugh , Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

7 " I'm learning that sometimes there are no answers to our questions & sometimes we don't have to understand. Thats part of life and it is ok.. "

8 " There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would like to give a few thoughts on what seemed to be the overwhelming question: “WHY?”
And here is the best answer I can give: Because.
Because sometimes, life is damned unfair.
Because sometimes, we lose people we love and it hurts deeply.
Because sometimes, as the writer, you have to put your characters in harm’s way and be willing to go there if it is the right thing for your book, even if it grieves you to do it.
Because sometimes there aren’t really answers to our questions except for what we discover, the meaning we assign them over time.
Because acceptance is yet another of life’s “here’s a side of hurt” lessons and it is never truly acceptance unless it has cost us something to arrive there.
Why, you ask? Because, I answer.
Inadequate yet true. "

― Libba Bray

9 " We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid? "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough

10 " Ultimately, our questions must emerge not from mental categories, but from deep within the heart. They must rise to the surface of our beings as we sit in silence, so that they are not just the old questions which we raise whenever we have nothing else to talk about or just for the sake of argument. They need to be the questions which make a difference in our lives. "

11 " Shaking herself, Petunia looked around. Several of her sisters had been talking to her, but she hadn't heard them. " And that answers our questions about why he gave himself up," Poppy was saying, a smile turning up one corner of her mouth as she looked at Petunia. " Now if everyone could please avoid saying his name [Oliver], so that Petunia doesn't drift off again...? "

12 " Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread. "

― Lisa Unger , Sliver of Truth (Ridley Jones, #2)

13 " Not understanding why affliction occurred has caused many to struggle with their faith. If we knew all the reasons and had the answers to all of our questions we wouldn’t need faith. God wants His children to depend on Him. We are not to work through our struggles with our own strength. Rather, we are to move through our tribulation with the strength God provides. "

― Cheryl Zelenka